CARETECH FOUNDATION

Who they support

Championing the social care sector, care workers and those living in care

Grant details

Four funding streams: Partnership Grants The Foundation supports a small number of significant partnerships with credible and high-quality charities and social enterprises consistent with its three key focus areas. Match-Funding Grant Our Match-Funding Grants are open to all CareTech staff and those in their care for their individual fundraising efforts for charitable causes in line with our Charitable Objectives. Community Grant The Foundation delivers a small grants programme to support the communities, families and friends of CareTech staff facing significant financial hardship or for issues affecting local communities in which CareTech operates. Staff Hardship Fund Grant The Foundation receives a restricted donation from CareTech Holdings Limited to enable us to provide small grants to CareTech staff and those who may recently have left the company who find themselves in significant financial hardship or at serious risk of becoming in significant financial hardship.

www.caretechfoundation.org.uk

info@caretechfoundation.org.uk

01707601800

Caretech Charitable Foundation
Metropolitan House
3 Darkes Lane
POTTERS BAR
EN6 1AG

Charity registered in England & Wales, No: 1182567

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Analysis of Grants Made

In this period 80 donations have been made totalling £1,093,920 to 80 organisations
This grant maker is prepared to support unregistered organisations
The average age of charities supported has been 22 years.

Where are the Beneficiaries?

How big are the Recipients? ?

Average annual spending of registered grantees: £47,220,802

Which activities are being funded?

How old were the charities when supported?

Growth in Spending
(per annum over last 3 years)

Main Overlaps with other Grant Makers ?

	By Value	By Number
National Lottery Community Fund	69%	19%
City Bridge Trust	47%	6%
Garfield Weston Foundation	41%	14%
Co-Operative Group	36%	10%
Wolfson Foundation	32%	8%
National Lottery Heritage Fund	32%	4%
DCMS	29%	6%
Prudence Trust	29%	3%
Pears Foundation	26%	5%
Co-Op Foundation	21%	3%

Sole supporter: 70% by number, 17% by value.

Individual Grants Made

When	Amount/ Spending	Recipient	To be used for
28/10/2022	£2,500	RBLI	Award made to support homeless veterans
28/10/2022	£2,500	CARERS WORLDWIDE	To support unpaid carers in the global South
19/10/2022	£1,315 £665,948,138	CANCER RESEARCH UK	Match funding Grant awarded to registered charity in the UK to support the applicant's fundraising efforts.
29/09/2022	£750	FRIEND/FAMILY	Awarded to support family of individual suffering from stage 4 neuroblastoma.
28/09/2022	£2,500	SOCIAL CARE COVID HEROES	Awarded as sponsorship for an awards event.
28/09/2022	£2,500	AHS FOUNDATION	Pakistan flood relief
28/09/2022	£2,500	TRUE COLOURS THEATRE	Grant to enable theatre group to renovate new premises
28/09/2022	£915 £8,924,033	TY HAFAN	Match funding Grant awarded to registered charity in the UK to support the applicant's fundraising efforts.
28/09/2022	£1,169 £12,851,950	SEVERN HOSPICE	Match funding Grant awarded to registered charity in the UK to support the applicant's fundraising efforts
28/09/2022	£1,750	COMMUNITY	Funeral Costs
12/09/2022	£2,000	LENNOX CHILDREN'S CANCER FUND	Grant to provide therapy sessions to cancer sufferers and their families
09/09/2022	£2,500	DOWN'S SYNDROME UK	Awarded to fund printing of literature.
09/09/2022	£2,129	CHALLENGERS	Award given to fund supplies and development of outdoor gardening area for pre-school children.
09/09/2022	£1,500	FRIEND/FAMILY	Awarded to fund child's headstone.
09/09/2022	£1,600	EARLSHEATON STARLITES	Community grant to support local sports team.
05/09/2022	£5,015	SEHAT KAHANI CARE PACKAGES	Award made to support flood victims in Pakistan
22/08/2022	£2,500	THE SLEEP CHARITY	Awarded to foster partnership between two sleep charities working towards a similar goal.
20/07/2022	£2,500	ALDERSHOT TOWN FC	Grant awarded to help deliver transport costs for getting elderly people to football games.
20/07/2022	£1,200	THE SHOTS FOUNDATION	Award given for supplies for a community space for local veterans to gather.
09/06/2022	£2,500	THANK AND PRAISE	Award made to support a new platform to provide thanks and praise to care workers.
09/06/2022	£2,500	WILLEN HOSPICE	Award made to support local hospice that cared for a previous staff member before their death.
09/06/2022	£500	NEWTON SPORTS JUNIOR FC	Award made to support trip to Scotland
09/06/2022	£1,000	DAWLEY WANDERS FC U14S	Award made to purchase kit for the team.
09/06/2022	£1,500	DUDLEY TOWN FOOTBALL CLUB	Award made to help with the costs of purchasing kit.
31/05/2022	£2,242	FIELD LANE	Award made to fund a sensory shed at the community organisation.
21/04/2022	£2,500	NORFOLK FAMILY CARERS	Award made to fund summer outing for unpaid family carers.
12/04/2022	£500	UNHCR UKRAINE APPEAL	Award made to support Ukrainian families through the UNHCR Ukraine Appeal.
12/04/2022	£1,640 £180,420,000	DISASTERS EMERGENCY COMMITTEE	Match funding Grant awarded to registered charity in the UK to support the applicant's fundraising efforts
30/03/2022	£1,000	SHAWBURY SCOUTS	Award made to scout troop that a staff member supported prior to their passing.
30/03/2022	£2,002	DEAFBLIND UK	Community Grant made to fund kit costs for a summer camp for deafblind children to meet others like them.
07/03/2022	£1,000	UGANDA CROYDON CATHOLIC COMMUNITY	Award made to funding training around knife crime to support their local community.
07/03/2022	£500	TAKE A BOW DEVELOPMENT TRUST	Award made to support local theatre that supports vulnerable people.
16/02/2022	£723 £215,047	BUDDY BAG FOUNDATION	Match funding Grant awarded to registered charity in the UK to support the applicant's fundraising efforts
09/02/2022	£8,995	INTER-ACTION MK	Community Grant to help start pilot project of The Friday Show.
31/01/2022	£1,000	HALO SPARKS GYMNASTICS CLUB	Award made to support the purchasing of resources for a local gymnastics club
07/01/2022	£1,000	HOPE AND PROSPERITY	£1,000 grant to support building costs for an orphanage project.
07/01/2022	£2,400	YOUTH SPACE	Community grant made to support play schemes run by organisation.
07/01/2022	£645 £4,258,397	TAPPING HOUSE HOSPICE	Match funding Grant awarded to registered charity in the UK to support the applicant's fundraising efforts
25/11/2021	£650	BRICKFIELD RANGERS U14S FC	Award made to purchase rain jackets for an U14s football team.
05/11/2021	£566 £234,055,000	MACMILLAN CANCER SUPPORT	Match funding Grant awarded to registered charity in the UK to support the applicant's fundraising efforts
15/10/2021	£1,000	EARLSHEATON STARLITES	Grant to help a local sports team purchase uniforms to allow them to compete in a competition.
30/09/2021	£2,500	PURPLE ANGEL CAMPAIGN	A grant of £2,500 awarded to support the Purple Angels campaign, which distributes free personalised Mp3s (and headphones) for those living with dementia in the UK.
15/09/2021	£94,027 £249,792	CARERS WORLDWIDE	Upscaling and expanding a successfully tested approach to support 1,002 unpaid family carers of persons with disabilities in Savar, Bangladesh
15/09/2021	£2,500	ST.PATRICKS RC CHURCH (THORNABY)	A grant of £2,500 was awarded to support the refurbishment of St.Patricks RC Church (Thornaby).
07/09/2021	£1,702 £1,692,479	WE ARE BEAMS	A grant of £1,702 has been awarded for the refurbishment of We are Beams charity.
25/08/2021	£1,000	LONDON'S COMMUNITY KITCHEN	A grant of £1,000 awarded to London's Community Kitchen to support their redistribution of food campaign.
25/08/2021	£1,000 £5,847,843	MARTHA TRUST	A grant of £1,000 awarded to purchase a bladder scanner to avoid the use of unnecessary catheterization and reduce the rates of urinary tract infections.
04/08/2021	£2,500	HEAD HELD HIGH	The £2,500 grant was awarded to support the 'Best You' programme, which is a behavioural change programme aimed at empowering participants with confidence and skills.
04/08/2021	£500	DONNINGTON BOXING CLUB	A grant of £500 awarded to the Boxing club to go towards purchasing a new bus to transport the children to and from matches.
04/08/2021	£534 £67,465	AZUKO	A grant of £534 awarded to AzuKo to ship football kits as well as additional clothing to be distributed to families living in extreme poverty in a village in Bangladesh.
21/07/2021	£1,000	RUSHDEN AND HIGHAM RFC	A grant of £1,000 awarded to purchase training kits for the rugby club following a difficult year impacted by the pandemic.
21/07/2021	£1,500 £69,516	OUTSIDE IN PATHWAYS	A £1,500 grant was awarded to support a creative programme focused on making cultural venues more accessible to people with complex needs and those from economically deprived areas of London. This project provides people with disabilities with the opportunity to engage creatively with public cultural resources.
21/07/2021	£1,300	RHUDDLAN TOWN FOOTBALL CLUB	A grant of £1,300 was awarded to be used to replace the water heater in the cabins and ensure running hot water is available as these facilities are open to the local community at events held at the venue throughout the year.
16/07/2021	£500	THE RED ROAD FOUNDATION	A grant of £500 was awarded to the Foundation in support of two CareTech Plc employees who completed a fundraising effort in aid of its work.
16/07/2021	£800	LOCAL COMMUNITY	A grant of £800 awarded to ship 600 KN95 masks and thousands of high grade face masks to RSPN, a charity based in Pakistan.
13/07/2021	£2,500	COMMUNITY GRANT	A grant of £2,500 was awarded to support the development of a book entitled - When I Grow up, I want to be a Carer. The book was created by Jenni Mack, to be distributed at no cost to local schools and community groups to raise awareness on the joys of being a carer.
13/07/2021	£10,000 £111,887	THE TOGETHER PROJECT	A £10,000 grant was awarded to support the Crafting Connections project, which aims to create long-lasting intergenerational friendships through arts & crafts
12/05/2021	£2,000	SHAD SEWING	A grant of £2,000 will go towards the development of 5 wireless sewing machine for disabled pupils for design and technology.
29/04/2021	£2,500 £5,402,674	BRITISH ASIAN TRUST	This grant of £2,500 will enable the provision of oxygen to over 2,000 beneficiaries under the BAT Emergency Appeal for India (COVID 19).
29/04/2021	£2,500 £585,000	SOUTH WARWICKSHIRE NHS SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPY	A grant of 2,500 awarded to purchase iPads which will be installed with Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) for assessment and treatment purposes for those needing speech and therapy support.
29/04/2021	£2,250 £566,835	CLAPTON COMMON BOYS CLUB	The grant will support the Creative Arts programme which aims to improve the social, emotional and educational development of 45 SEND children through craft building activities and music, where participants will have the space and freedom to express themselves in a non-judgemental environment
22/04/2021	£1,105 £69,654,000	WALK FOR AUTISM	Match funding Grant awarded to registered charity in the UK to support the applicant's fundraising efforts
01/04/2021	£2,500	AT THERAPY	A grant of £2,500 was awarded to support disabled children and adults in Kenya who require augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) technology to participate in society and have independence.
22/03/2021	£90,000 £5,500,829	ONSIDE YOUTH ZONES	1) Building a skilled workforce: 84 staff will be qualified to identify mental health issues in young people and support them or refer them for support. 2) Increasing the provision of early intervention mental health services: 10,010 young people will learn more about their health and wellbeing, 840 young people will feel supported and able to approach staff with their problems, across a range of need. 3) Building partnerships with specialist mental health services: 280 young people will be supported to access external support/specialist services to address specific mental health needs. 4) Using data gathered to evidence the positive impact of early intervention and sustainability of the project: end of project evaluation and documented model of best practice.
05/03/2021	£22,000	TRANSFORM SOCIETY	Grant provided to undertake feasibility study for the development of a new social care talent recruitment and development scheme
26/02/2021	£1,000 £21,395	HORSLEY & BOOKHAM RIDING FOR THE DISABLED	A £1,000 grant awarded to go towards building a brand new, fully accessible Equestrian Centre at Badgers Farm, Effingham. This will deliver life-changing therapeutic riding lessons for children and young people with disabilities.
10/02/2021	£120,000 £92,866,000	RNIB - ROYAL NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BLIND PEOPLE	RNIB and the CareTech Foundation will be working together to ensure that no one with complex needs in a care setting is missing out on basic eye care due to their additional needs and conditions. The project will review the existing Vision Friends project and work with CareTech plc staff to review and role out the project in the care sector.
03/02/2021	£2,500	ROAR PURSUITS CIC	A £2,500 grant awarded to fund the emergency fund set up to support care leavers navigate through daily challenges they face.
25/01/2021	£225,000 £69,091,000	PRINCE'S TRUST	The Prince?s Trust, together with the NHS and Health Education England, will support a further 10,000 young people into careers within the NHS and wider health and social care sector. The programme will develop partnerships with 150 NHS Trusts and care providers, including CareTech PLC, and paving the way for generations to come. Key elements of the programme include: 1) Get Into workshops 2) Get Started workshops 3) Mentoring 4) CTAL support for employability.
21/01/2021	£160,000 £1,591,119	AUTISTICA	The programme catalyses a wave of new research that can understand what high-quality social care looks like for autistic adults and how it can be delivered well in the real world. Autistica will do this by creating the Social Care Action Fund with the CareTech Foundation. Through a partnership with the National Institute for Health Research, the Social Care Action Fund will directly support social care research studies alongside helping researchers develop their research ideas. The programme?s key deliverables will be: 1) Five research studies given additional funding of up to £100,000 each (each study will result in many more deliverables, dependent on its area of focus). 2) Five+ researchers will be supported to develop their research ideas, with seed funding, support from Autistica staff, and expert input from autistic people and CareTech PLC staff.
14/01/2021	£1,000 £49,575	BETHLEHEM CHURCH LIFE CENTRE	A grant of £1,000 awarded for the provision of food hampers which were distributed to local families.
07/10/2020	£2,500 £97,571	NAZ LEGACY FOUNDATION	Grant of £2,500 will go towards developing the 'Dealing with Grief ' series, which is group of short films that aims to inform, educate and support people who are grieving. This was launched during the pandemic.
05/10/2020	£39,996	THE OPEN UNIVERSITY	The Open University?s Carers? Scholarships Fund aims to offer 50 full-fee waiver scholarships to carers, within which they will be able to flexibly study towards a higher education qualification. Of these, 15 will be ring-fenced for young adult carers aged 18-25. Carers will need to be UK based, means tested and will have to provide proof of caring from a GP, social worker, local authority, carer organisation or similar source. This fund will address the need for carers to prepare for life and a career after caring and to make up for lost opportunities where they have been disadvantaged by their situation, for example missing school or not being able to attend university due to caring commitments. The fund will also seek to address the significant financial disadvantage many carers face, by not only providing free access to study, but also additional financial support to assist students in travelling to exams, purchasing set books and other incidental costs related to studying.
04/06/2020	£140,000 £3,322,514	EY FOUNDATION	In 2017, 40% of care leavers aged 19-21 were Not in Education Training or Employment (NEET) compared to 13% of that age group. There is a clear need to support care experienced young people to improve their outcomes. In 2019, the Caretech Foundation entered into exciting partnership with the EY Foundation, an organisation which supports young people with barriers in their transition into work. A key element of this partnership involved the development of a new bespoke programme that meets the needs of young people in care and enables them to realise their future potential. Care to Employment has been co-designed with professionals in the care sector, national employers and 80 care experienced young people across England. We asked young people ?What matters to you??. They told us they want support in enhancing the opportunities available to them, employability skills, quality work experience, budgeting / life skills, mental wellbeing alongside 1 to 1 tailored support through business mentoring and a bespoke careers bursary. Care to Employment will have 5 key pillars of qualitative evaluation for the programme and we would expect all the young people to report an enhanced level of the following benchmarks post programme: ? Enhanced self-confidence and skills and qualities ? Better knowledge of careers and job application skills ? Improved self-awareness including larger personal and professional networks ? Stronger self and career ambition ? Financial literacy skills. A grant from the CareTech Foundation will support 30 young people in three cohorts in Barnet and Manchester.
18/05/2020	£10,000	KIT4CARERS	A grant of £10,000 awarded to Kit4Carers, a charitable initiative to ensure that carers in the UK and overseas have access to essential PPE to protect them and those for whom they care from COVID19.
30/04/2020	£5,000	CONNECT THE LOVE	The Foundation awarded a grant of £5,000 in support of Connect the Love, a charitable initiative which supports people who are isolated in care homes, hospitals and vulnerable situations by providing devices to keep them digitally connected to friends, families and loved ones. Connect the Love?s mission is to alleviate loneliness, improve mental health and prevent isolation during the pandemic and beyond.
20/04/2020	£2,500	POTTERS BAR RADIO	A grant of £2,500 awarded to set up the Potters Bar Radio focused on battling isolation at the height of the pandemic.
08/04/2020	£12,500	NATIONAL CARE FORCE	A grant of £12,500 was awarded to fund National Care Force, a free social platform that serves to mobilise and provide volunteer support in a bid to free up front line clinical and care staff.
08/04/2020	£2,500 £33,898,000	UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS (UCLH) NHS FOUNDATION TRUST	A grant of £2,500 was awarded to support UCLH?s fundraising campaign for NHS staff during the COVID-19 crisis.
01/04/2020	£45,000 £1,146,730	BIRMINGHAM DISABILITY RESOURCE CENTRE	Birmingham DRC's Positive Pathways project engages with adults with disabilities on a pathway towards recovery using a person-centred approach through education, volunteering, employment. The changes achieved include providing access to meaningful, relevant and high quality further education and training, support to achieve vocational qualifications, access to work experience and employment support to assist individuals to find and keep a job. Ultimately, the aim is to see all beneficiaries in suitable education, training or employment. The project has 3 elements of support: 1) Opportunities for Life ?a 2 day a week, 6 week course 2) Opportunities Hub ?a weekly drop-in at DRC's fully accessible Information, Health and Wellbeing Centre 3) Mentoring, information, advice and guidance.

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Cumulative Grants

Amount	Recipient
£225,000	PRINCE'S TRUST
£160,000	AUTISTICA
£140,000	EY FOUNDATION
£120,000	RNIB - ROYAL NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BLIND PEOPLE
£94,027	CARERS WORLDWIDE
£90,000	ONSIDE YOUTH ZONES
£45,000	BIRMINGHAM DISABILITY RESOURCE CENTRE
£39,996	THE OPEN UNIVERSITY
£22,000	TRANSFORM SOCIETY
£12,500	NATIONAL CARE FORCE
£10,000	THE TOGETHER PROJECT
£10,000	KIT4CARERS
£8,995	INTER-ACTION MK
£5,015	SEHAT KAHANI CARE PACKAGES
£5,000	CONNECT THE LOVE
£2,500	WILLEN HOSPICE
£2,500	UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS (UCLH) NHS FOUNDATION TRUST
£2,500	TRUE COLOURS THEATRE
£2,500	THE SLEEP CHARITY
£2,500	THANK AND PRAISE
£2,500	ST.PATRICKS RC CHURCH (THORNABY)
£2,500	SOUTH WARWICKSHIRE NHS SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPY
£2,500	SOCIAL CARE COVID HEROES
£2,500	ROAR PURSUITS CIC
£2,500	RBLI
£2,500	PURPLE ANGEL CAMPAIGN
£2,500	POTTERS BAR RADIO
£2,500	NORFOLK FAMILY CARERS
£2,500	NAZ LEGACY FOUNDATION
£2,500	HEAD HELD HIGH
£2,500	DOWN'S SYNDROME UK
£2,500	COMMUNITY GRANT
£2,500	CARERS WORLDWIDE
£2,500	BRITISH ASIAN TRUST
£2,500	ALDERSHOT TOWN FC
£2,500	AT THERAPY
£2,500	AHS FOUNDATION
£2,400	YOUTH SPACE
£2,250	CLAPTON COMMON BOYS CLUB
£2,242	FIELD LANE
£2,129	CHALLENGERS
£2,002	DEAFBLIND UK
£2,000	SHAD SEWING
£2,000	LENNOX CHILDREN'S CANCER FUND
£1,750	COMMUNITY
£1,702	WE ARE BEAMS
£1,640	DISASTERS EMERGENCY COMMITTEE
£1,600	EARLSHEATON STARLITES
£1,500	OUTSIDE IN PATHWAYS
£1,500	FRIEND/FAMILY
£1,500	DUDLEY TOWN FOOTBALL CLUB
£1,315	CANCER RESEARCH UK
£1,300	RHUDDLAN TOWN FOOTBALL CLUB
£1,200	THE SHOTS FOUNDATION
£1,169	SEVERN HOSPICE
£1,105	WALK FOR AUTISM
£1,000	UGANDA CROYDON CATHOLIC COMMUNITY
£1,000	SHAWBURY SCOUTS
£1,000	RUSHDEN AND HIGHAM RFC
£1,000	MARTHA TRUST
£1,000	LONDON'S COMMUNITY KITCHEN
£1,000	HORSLEY & BOOKHAM RIDING FOR THE DISABLED
£1,000	HOPE AND PROSPERITY
£1,000	HALO SPARKS GYMNASTICS CLUB
£1,000	EARLSHEATON STARLITES
£1,000	DAWLEY WANDERS FC U14S
£1,000	BETHLEHEM CHURCH LIFE CENTRE
£915	TY HAFAN
£800	LOCAL COMMUNITY
£750	FRIEND/FAMILY
£723	BUDDY BAG FOUNDATION
£650	BRICKFIELD RANGERS U14S FC
£645	TAPPING HOUSE HOSPICE
£566	MACMILLAN CANCER SUPPORT
£534	AZUKO
£500	UNHCR UKRAINE APPEAL
£500	THE RED ROAD FOUNDATION
£500	TAKE A BOW DEVELOPMENT TRUST
£500	NEWTON SPORTS JUNIOR FC
£500	DONNINGTON BOXING CLUB